Showoff Your Other (Non-Rocket) Hobbies! *Eye Candy Please!*

[Hyak]

Aviation is my main passion, and my primary hobby is flying. In addition to building and flying rockets, I'm involved with RC aircraft and cars, plastic modeling, and balsa modeling (think Guillows). I also do woodworking, and single & dual line kite flying from time to time (I needed windy-weather hobbies for when the others were grounded!)

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From one with an almost identical 'hobby' list...

Nice Crib! That is really awesome!

As to the planes though... come on! ASEL??? Fly Twins! (Just kidding!!!)

Nice glass in N677AM though!) I remember several years ago when I did a Ferry flight for someone in a New 172 (As in new 40 <hours....ahhhh that new airplane smell!) Everything was glass and I had to spend some time figuring everythng out!

Keep the Shiny side up and Fly Safe!

 

[mach7]

I was wondering who made that size of Mars Lander.? That is one of the possible kits that I would like to put together but I just don't want the real small one. I went to the Tango Papa site that was advertised in Sport Rocketry magazine a few years ago, but it's not mentioned anywhere that I could find. it was a 1.6X version. What scale is yours?

It's the original Estes kit I cloned. The original size. The Semroc ML is Identical to the original, except for the decals.
Carl did a great job bringing the kit to market.

 

[mach7]

I have to say I'm a fan of the rubber bumper MGB. A lot of cars were destroyed looks wise by 5 MPH bumpers but they effectively modernised the, by then, dated B and BGT front end.

YMMV.

I agree, I really like the rubber bumper cars, the older chrome bumpers look cool, but are very 1960's. Not a bad thing, but the rubber bumpers do look nice.

 

[tab28682]

I am about 70-30 these days for time spent on RC aircraft vs rocketry.

A long time desire was recently granted when a RC MiG-25 model was finally offered for sale. Have been fascinated by the Foxbat ever since reading Mig Pilot many years ago. Twin 64mm EDFs on a 6 cell 4000 lipo. An excellent flyer.

 

[mach7]

Photo's?

 

[hobie1dog]

It's the original Estes kit I cloned. The original size. The Semroc ML is Identical to the original, except for the decals.
Carl did a great job bringing the kit to market.

Is there anybody making an upscale version these days?

 

[icyclops]

Found some more pictures. Theses are pre-health loss hobbies:
Muscle Cars-1969 SS 396 matching numbers el Camino

Sport-Touring w/ 1993 Honda VFR

Bluegill fishing with Fly Rods

Pipe Smoking- my prized Aaron Beck Freehand

Turntables

Love the El Camino…..i had a 69 Malibu 350 El Camino…..great muscle cars.

 

[GlenP]

I mess around with learning to play these:

 

[teepot]

Besides rockets I collect guns, knives and coins. Here is my 66th birthday [4/22] present to myself. It's an FN FNX 45 in FDE.

 

[hobie1dog]

Besides rockets I collect guns, coins.

My good friend makes his living in currency. He brought over a coin recently from 420 BC He just sold a bill with (8) # 2's in a row for the serial number.

 

[tab28682]

Photo's?

It’s on there now. Not sure why it did not attach the first time…..

 

[SkyFire]

Building and flying RC Warbirds

 

[Spitfire222]

From one with an almost identical 'hobby' list...

Nice Crib! That is really awesome!

As to the planes though... come on! ASEL??? Fly Twins! (Just kidding!!!)

Nice glass in N677AM though!) I remember several years ago when I did a Ferry flight for someone in a New 172 (As in new 40 <hours....ahhhh that new airplane smell!) Everything was glass and I had to spend some time figuring everythng out!

Keep the Shiny side up and Fly Safe!

Ha, thanks! Twins are way too rich for me, but I can at least get a few hours a month in for ASEL. I'm aiming to get my instrument and commercial ratings, fly some aerobatics, and hopefully build an RV one day! Re: the G1000, it's pretty nice, but being a millenial, I actually tend to prefer the six-pack + touch screen GTN-750 that it's the 172! See you in the skies!

 

[Spitfire222]

Building and flying RC Warbirds
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Awesome! I might one day get back into the larger stuff. That 109 is gorgeous!

 

[Nateairman]

 

[beeblebrox]

My Union Pacific beer train! With missile launcher for protection... N-Scale 1:160






My Friend Dave's layout was excavated out of three foot deep clay in what used to be his crawlspace...



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[hobie1dog]

Bump for the new members to respond.

 

[Michael L]

This was taken a couple of years ago. I'm down in TX now, working on my instrument rating. I passed the written test, I've got all of the required hours and then some. I just need to tune up my skills and take the check ride. Short final, runway 7, KFMN

 

[FredA]

 

[KenECoyote]

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You're facing the wrong way!

Looks amazing... I'm jealous!

 

[hobie1dog]

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wow what a setup I've always wanted to experience that.

 

[Michael L]

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What monitor is that? I've been thinking about updating the monitor I use for XPlane to a 3 monitor system. That would work a lit better. Actually. The entire setup would work a lot better than what I have now.

 

[FredA]

wow what a setup I've always wanted to experience that.

Yea - built this during Covid.
Got a little caught up in it and perhaps overdid it a bit.
Pretty awesome setup - Fanatec DD2; F1 and Porsche wheels; HE Sprint Pedals; 49-inch G9 1000R monitor; Butt-kickers in each corner (feel the kerbs); 5.1 sound; wind-sim; shifter, hand-brake, button-box, etc.... All loaded on a Simlabs P1-X chassis.

Pushing sub 6-minutes laps of the Nordschleife in the Protech P91 is the bomb!
Makes you realize how focused race drivers have to be - one slight distraction and you're in the wall.

 

[KC3KNM]

A little less fancy of a setup, still figuring out where it’s going to live.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

A little less fancy of a setup, still figuring out where it’s going to live.

You can keep the pedals at my house...

 

[alexzogh]

This was set up in my old house. I'm rebuilding it in my barn